Weakness Quotes - Page 42

I'm willin' for any solution - religious, political. I'm not going to keep offerin' to negotiate so much because they turn us down each time. It indicates a weakness on our part.

Satirize wickedness if you must--but pity weakness.

Nature obliges everything to change about. One thing crumbles and falls in the weakness of age; Another grows in its place from a negligible start. So time alters the whole nature of the world And earth passes from one state to another.

Men dissimulate their dearest, most constant, and most virtuous inclination from weakness and a fear of being condemned.

Despair puts the last touch not only to our misery but also to our weakness.

Men are much more unwilling to have their weaknesses and their imperfections known than their crimes.

Not to perceive the little weaknesses and the idle but innocent affectations of the company may be allowable as a sort of polite duty. The company will be pleased with you if you do, and most probably will not be reformed by you if you do not.

You will find that reason, which always ought to direct mankind, seldom does; but that passions and weaknesses commonly usurp itsseat, and rule in its stead.

Oh! too convincing--dangerously dear-- In woman's eye the unanswerable tear! That weapon of her weakness she can wield, To save, subdue--at once her spear and shield.

It is dangerous, at any time, to multiply sources of weakness.

He had found my worst weakness: I was one of those people who was desperate to be needed, to matter to someone.

Love me?” Madeline asked with a faint smile. “It used to be love.” He brushed his lips over her closed eyelids. “Now there's no word for it.” “You once told me that you thought love was a weakness.” “I was wrong,” he whispered, kissing the corners of her mouth. “I've discovered it's my only strength.

If your concern is that I may be overcome with manly ardor and ravish you in a moment of weakness… I may. If you ask nicely.

We were each other's only link to the past . . . that was the strength of our bond, and also our weakness.

Empires are not brought down by outside forces, they are destroyed by weaknesses from within.

There's not an orchestra in the world that doesn't have weaknesses. None of us can play everything well. The repertoire is just too big.

The one thing that I remember from all of my intelligence briefings and my dealings with the Russians is that when you deal with the Russians, you have to deal with them from strength, not from weakness.

It's not so much that he can't fall in love, but he has not the weakness necessary.

Anna smiled,as people smile at the weaknesses of those they love. . .

a weak and irresolute disposition is often more destructive than determined vice.

You easily close yourself off to certain things because you want to seem like you know it all, or you're not weak - emotion is often confused as weakness - so when emotions are undeniably physically affecting you, I think it's a gift.

Conscience is a just but weak judge. Weakness leaves it powerless to execute its judgment.

They [Republicans] assume that military action always shows strength, while avoiding military action always shows weakness. That's just crazy.

In most writers, style is a welcome, an invitation, a letting down of the drawbridge between the artist and the world. Shaw had no time for such ruses. Unlike most of his countrymen, he abominated charm, which he regarded as evidence of chronic temperamental weakness.

I guess I am conscious of my weaknesses, and I think pacing is probably my biggest. I don't know if I think the clarity thing is actually a weakness. It was a stylistic choice.